Audrey Samson

Audrey Samson is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose work points to the materiality of data and its consequences.[1] She is largely known for her exploration of erasure as a means of knowledge production through digital data funerals.[2]

Samson studied Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute, where she obtained a MFA in 2007.

Together with Sabrina Basten, she co-founded Roger10-4.[3] Their work was featured in Arte,[4] NRK,[5] and Motherboard. She has been an active member of the networked performance group aether9,[6] and the feminist tech network Genderchangers. Samson is also known by the pseudonym ideacritik, and is part of the duo FRAUD, where she collaborates with the artist Fran Gallardo.[7]

Samson's Dust2Seed project was proposed to memorialise a deceased person by encoding their personal data as DNA that would be synthesised and grafted into the DNA of a seedling, so a tree would grow embodying the deceased person's data.[8]

Interviews
  • 'Digital Data Funerals' in Behind The Smart World.[9]
  • 'When I go' in This is not a piece of me. Interview by Lisa Matzi. (print)
  • 'Hackin' some coils into wearables'.[10]

References
  1. "Putting Data to Rest | Fringe Arts – The Link". Thelinknewspaper.ca. 2015-03-03. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  2. "Die Referentin;Die schmutzigen Seiten unserer High Tech Welt". diereferentin.servus.at. June 2016. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  3. "Roger10-4". Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  4. "Leaking Transmediale: Medienkunst in Zeiten totaler Transparenz | ARTE Creative". Creative.arte.tv (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  5. "NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling". Nrk.no. Archived from the original on 2016-04-03. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  6. aether9 (2011). aether9 - Remote Realtime Storytelling. Ghent: Greyscale Press. ISBN 978-2-9700706-4-1.
  7. Somerset House Studios (6 March 2017). "Somerset House Studios residents". Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  8. Sabra, Jakob Borrits; Troyer, John (2018). "The Right to Be Dead: Designing Future Cemeteries". The Routledge handbook of death and the afterlife. Candi K. Cann. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-134-81734-4. OCLC 1042329783.
  9. Kronman, Linda; Zingerl, Andreas; KairUs (2015). "Book: Behind the Smart World – saving, deleting, resurfacing data – KairUs.org – Linda Kronman & Andreas Zingerle". Kairus.org.
  10. Hustic, Deborah (9 August 2011). "Hackin some coils into wearables". Body Pixel. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
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